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Microsoft Ruined Windows

Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days.

Normally I wouldn’t care too much, big tech ruins another thing, whatever.

But the problem is Microsoft has such a dominant market share that you can’t really escape them.

I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

t00l ,

Windows 2000 Professional was the first good Windows OS that I can remember. XP and 7 were also quite decent overall.

Around 2008 everything changed. This is when Prism was ramped up, and Microsoft’s new mission was to use MSE and telemetry to spy on the world. It was around this time Windows 8 rolled out with spyware and Windows 7 got “security” updates that forced telemetry into it as well.

Information is power, and the general population has no chance of living in a free and fair society until it cleans house in the private and public sectors.

IAmNotACat ,

Install Linux. It’s almost easier to install than Windows at this point.

random_character_a ,
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It’s been going downhill since Windows 2000.

Treczoks ,

“Windows - The Decline and Fall of the Redmond Empire”

chonglibloodsport ,

The last fond memories I have of using Windows were 3.11 and 95/98SE. XP was useable but ugly. 7 was nicer than XP but a lot slower. Everything else has been awful.

MrNesser ,

You skipped the dumster fire that was Vista

1984 ,
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You are like 10 years late to discover this, but sure… Of course you can escape Microsoft. They are very easy to avoid.

Linux is amazing. Just a hint…

TheBigBrother ,

Install Linux I have using it on servers and desktop for years, you can start with Pop! OS. Good luck.

mesamunefire ,

Yep it’s been over a decade for me now.

Boozilla ,
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Pop! OS is great. I’ve been using it for about a week now. Very friendly distro for us Windows victims.

TheBigBrother ,

Zorin OS it’s another good one for recent ex-windows users, but yeah pop os goes smooth.

Drathro ,

Here’s my vote for Bazzite. If your use case is simple computing and games? I don’t know if you can do much better.

shortwavesurfer ,

Oh, you absolutely can escape them. I hacent used windows except for work in years and even then my boss is okay with ne using linux as long as i get the work done

fin ,

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infeeeee ,

18 minutes video about how windows is bad, posted to literally the biggest linux circlejerk forum of the interwebs. Oh a misleading ad trying to sell the same thing as haveibeenpwned, classic.

Nowadays if someone is annoyed by these things can switch to Linux, nearly all games work ootb, hardware acceleration and drm is also working in browsers. For a home user, competitive gaming is the only thing which is not on par with windows.

For company environments where they use software which is windows only, group policy is there, sysadmins can lock down computers that it basically looks like a kiosk with only the few programs the employee need, no notifications, no ai bullshit, these annoyances only affect home users.

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